That's entirely believable, if windows was remotely useful for most people without administrator mode enabled. Little Johnny can download is own programs, his own binaries, place them in his home folder and have them entirely functional. In windows, every time he wants to play whack-a-mole on the nick for kids site, he has to get the administrator to come in, install whack-a-mole and then let johnny log back in and pray he can play it as a user.
The loss of functionality is what forces so many administrators on windows. If it were as easy as allowing users to have control over installation in their own personal directories, it wouldn't be an issue, but forcing programmers to modify C:\Windows\ files and use the registry (which also takes admin access) for any installation or the usage of pre-installed programs, leaves the system open for damage from multiple users.
I wonder why he didn't bring up that Dad has pictures of Little Johnny on his first day of school Mom has all of her and dad's wedding photos. Litte Suzy has all of her papers for school on the hard drive. Little Johnny likes to look up pr0n.
Windows situation, While trying to download hotmidgetdonkeypornheaven.exe, Little Johnny accidently picks up uber.worm. Uber.worm deletes Johnny's files, suzie's files, mom's files, dad's files, system files, makes the system useless, and you go from a windows computer to a nice paperweight until you reformat.
*nix situation, While trying to download hotmidgedonkeypornheaven.sh, Little Johnny accidentally picks up the uber.deletion.script. Uber-del deletes johnny's entire home directory!
Of course, Mom, Dad, and Suzie are entirely unaffected because Johnny doesn't have permission to overwrite those files.
Wonder why the asshat, er, I mean, article writer didn't bring up that snippet?
You lost me. You mean if you create something in order to keep people from being harrassed by other people, you're discriminating against the people who would be harrassing them by not allowing them in the guild?
I've heard of putting a spin on something, but that statement puts a tornado on it.
Okay, being besides the point that the meat of this article has nothing to do with gay marriage, MMORPG marriage, or anything else, however states a snippet about an unrelated incident having to do with gay marriage, we'll move on to the valid point of the article...
Now, someone may have to clarify this for me, but basically, due to their anti-harrassment policy, you're not allowed to be against GLBT (Gays, Lesbians, Bis and Trans?) however it is also against the harrassment policy to support GLBT?
Amazing how this reply was made by an anonymous coward.
Anyway, back to the real world, I'm an administrator on a Wiki and a couple of forums and one of the most common problems we used to have was people registering with hotmail, aim, yahoo, etc accounts which offered free accounts to anyone, then causing problems with their free accounts. All we had to do was to block these registrations. Many people still use these free accounts if there is no other alternative, however it only takes a short email to any of the core administrators to create an account with that email address and send the information back to the user.
I also hate to burst your anonymous bubble, but unless you're stealing bandwidth from your neighbor, or you do all of your postings and emailing from web-based interfaces in your public library, you're not as anonymous as you think. Even then you're not truly anonymous, however it takes quite a bit more coding and bouncing to gain any real anonimity. Much more than some racially motivated substandard wanna-be kiddie h4XX0r would be willing to put forth in order to spew his hate garbage at the general public anyway.
*sits back and waits for another anonymous asswipe, er, I mean coward to respond*
I find it absolutely amazing that the people or person who writes these little racial snippets is so concerned about hiding behind an "Anonymous Coward" moniker. Reminds me of Klan members who want to hide under white sheets and hoods.
I think the oddest part is that someone who so seems to want to jump onto the bandwagon and type in bold and caps to draw attention to their ideas is also ashamed to be associated with them. If you feel your message is important, or that you have something, or in this case anything, of importance to add to a discussion, you should be able to stand proudly behind your thoughts and ideas and identify yourself. Allowing unregistered users, or giving registered users the option to post anonymously has got to be one of the poorest ideas I've seen in quite some time. It seems that each time any verbal sewage is plopped forth in a putrid mass for the/. public to see, it's always posted as Anonymous Coward, much like the verbal sewage above.
I don't want to wish any ill will on anyone, but I hope their kindergarten teacher sees what they're writing during class time and takes their computer priveleges away until after their nap. That'd show 'em.
I don't like debian's 1.0.5 version of Thunderbird on my system, so I can download the binary, decompress it, and place it in my/home/user/programs/ directory with a link to my/home/user/bin/ directory. I have full control over this, can use my own version of thunderbird 1.5, and it has no effect over the entire system. This really isn't too much to ask since there are multiple files on the system which I can read, however have no reason to overwrite. In this same directory, I keep America's Army, Castle Wolfenstein Enemy Territory, Firefox, RealPlayer (helix), and Adobe Reader.
With the exception of running "sudo wajig daily-upgrade" every once in a while, I rarely have to use any root commands. None of the software I have on windows, everything from games to RealPlayer, could be installed in my standard user account. Each time I want to install anything, I have to log in as administrator (which I don't like) so that the install can write god knows what in my C:\Windows\ folder and C:\Program Files\ folder. What would be so terrible about having a full installation in C:\Documents and Settings\user\Program Files\ folder, or at least something that didn't have to affect the entire system?
I still have full control over my entire system, I just don't have to be logged in as Administrator 24/7 to use the system. You can keep control of your computer without having to be lord and master of the entire OS on a constant basis.
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I know no OS is perfect, but why charge for a solution to end a problem that your OS causes in the first place? Hell, you have to be a "root" user to install anything on windows giving everything you install full permissions over the OS during installation of anything.
Make users able to install something in the C:\Documents and Settings\Foobar\ directory without affecting the entire system.
Take away user ability to affect the entire system. (such as connectivity/interfaces)
Allow a sudo type system to stop forcing people to sign in the system as admin every day.
Force the creation of at least one non-admin account for every day use during install.
I know viruses/adware/spyware will still be able to be installed, but why not make it just a little bit harder. Hell, if a burglar wants to get in my house, he can kick the door in... that doesn't stop me from locking and bolting the door every night just to make it a little more inconvenient for Johnny Break-in to steal my stuff.
I'm sorry, but wasn't most of Mitnick's attacks performed with information obtained through hacking by use of social engineering? How does this make him an expert on code?
He found exploits in OpenVMS and tricked users into giving him information. How does this make him different from what we now call a phisher? I think a bit too much credence is being given to an outdated dinosaur who's gone from "effective con-man" to "not quite as effective con man". I can't say he's completely ineffective now... obviously his verbal flatulence is still being posted on news sites apparently. Sorry, but IMO, Mr. Mitnick's on his 16th minute, and the industry's growing tired.
So, according to this page, there's no actual listed plural for the word virus. Could it be a word similar to deer?
Look, there's a deer!
Look at that group of deer.
Both correct since deer is the plural of the (singular) word deer. Potentially, virus could be plural of the singular virus, therefore viri, virii, and viruses are all wrong. Wow, talk about pouring gas on the fire.
According to WikipediaIn the English language, the normal plural of virus is viruses. This form of the plural is correct, and used most frequently, both when referring to a biological virus and when referring to a computer virus. The forms viri and virii are also used as a plural, although less frequently. There is disagreement among users of the Internet over whether these forms should be considered correct. No reputable printed dictionary includes them as correct forms.
Of course, if we're not allowed to use latin in the english language, you should stop using things like et cetera, super, circus, recipe, agenda, ultimatum, versus, or circa.
I'd be a smartass and call you a genius, but since that's also a latin word, you'd probably refuse to accept it as english anyway.
What I'm saying is, apple contracts other companies to write programs for them, or they buy a company that already produces a product they want to include in their systems. The selection of programs that were developed by these companies after being purchased by Apple is very limited, so in effect, they have produced limited software written and developed while under the apple name, so that would in fact be apple software. However, much of the software is developed by companies not owned by apple, even if you can buy it off of apple's website. Apple is indeed a hardware company.
Believe what you will, but I'd suggest reading up on Apple's software. Just because they sell it, doesn't mean they wrote it. Heck, I bought Battlefield1942 a few years back from Circuit City. If Circuit City sells it, it must have been written by them, right? Oh wait, it says EA Games on the box, they must have written it. Surprisingly, it was written and developed by DICE, where it was then purchased by EA, then they marketed it to Circuit City, who purchased in bulk, and then sold me the individual game. Just because I bought it from there, doesn't mean they wrote, developed, marketed, then sold it.
This isn't your mom-n-pop corner store where Grandma knits scarves in the back room and sells them from behind the register. Welcome to economics.
I'm wondering why no one's made the connection that an mp3 player is hardware. Why would a software company, namely M$, put out a piece of hardware? Anything more complicated than a mouse or a keyboard isn't exactly M$'s market.
Apple, however, makes hardware. iMacs, iBooks, iPods, iCantremembertheotherstuff, however they don't even write their own software, they use Unix. I say we let the software company continue producing software, and the hardware company continue to produce hardware.
I use IE in debian using crossover office from Codeweavers. I have to travel now and again for work and some hotels use the same setup where it requires that you use IE to make your connection (and yes, safari works too, but I don't have a mac)
All I have to do is make a connection to google with IE, then I use FF for everything else.
Pippy's sadly outdated, but I don't exactly need the 2.4.2 functionality in every little thing that I write. If it's something for personal use, it doesn't need to be all flashy with the latest-n-greatest bells and whistles but to perform a simple function (usually in CLI if it's for me)
Heck, I'm not writing a PostgreSQL tie-in function for the Apache webserver running on a Tungsten E here. It was just a short little script to back up data onto a memory card when her battery gets low. Strangely enough, it's basically the same app I used to back up commercial servers on a daily basis until a recent rewrite about 2 months ago.
Well, the programs itself don't need to be modified but sort of "tweaked" for usage on different systems. My latest little app written with tkinter doesn't actually need to have any changes to use the app itself, but saving files is different. Of course, with different file hierarchies, trying to save something to C:\Program Files\User\foobar.cfg isn't going to work in Linux, the same as saving to %HOME/.foobar.cfg isn't goint to work in Windows.
Setting these variables to query the OS and modify parts of the save file really isn't something that I'd consider a major modification. There is no real "platform independant" programming language simply because each platform has minor changes that must be compensated for when it comes to complex functions, however python allows this transition to occur much more easily than any other language I've used IMO.
To imply that Python is completely platform independant was a mistake on my part because there is no 100% independant language, however using the import function to import libraries to assist with many complex functions makes it easier to perform the task of making it operational on multiple platforms.
Python was the very first language I used to learn to program. I had multiple people telling me to start with python, so I perused over to their site, picked up a few online tutorials to go through, and started building a library of python books.
It helps because I can write one program for Linux, it works on my Windows PC with minor mods, and even works on my wife's Palm with similiar minor mods.
Python is a platform independant object-oriented programming language. It's great to learn, and it's great to start your learning with.
I hate to point this out... actually, I don't really mind pointing it out, but Myspace is nothing but a free "make your own crappy website where your friends make their crappy website" hosting places. All they do is make a haven for teenagers and child molesters to make as many "friends" as possible on their web pages for no charge. By providing an over-simplified interface to make as many nasty websites as possible so the friends of their users will look and generate more advertising money.
Out of the free use, I'd say these people can pretty much enforce whatever they want on their space. If they don't want any racist sites, they can filter out as many sites by Aryans and Black Panthers as they want to maintain this. Extend this as far as they can into things like revenue generators. They get a check from Coke, so the word Pepsi isn't allowed in virtual ads on the individual pages. They get paid by file sharing company A, they're not going to allow file sharing company B into their pages.
Nothing's free, these people offer a server and maintain complete control over content.
Now if only I could get my daughter off the damn thing, I'd be happy.
I picked up something from Radio Shack about a year ago called iGo. little universal charging thing that you can just swap out tips for. Now instead of having 9 chargers, I have one charger and 9 tips that I can't remember what the hell they go to. Shame it doesn't work with my Dell laptop though.
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OpenOffice runs powerpoint just fine on my Linux laptop.
That's entirely believable, if windows was remotely useful for most people without administrator mode enabled. Little Johnny can download is own programs, his own binaries, place them in his home folder and have them entirely functional. In windows, every time he wants to play whack-a-mole on the nick for kids site, he has to get the administrator to come in, install whack-a-mole and then let johnny log back in and pray he can play it as a user.
The loss of functionality is what forces so many administrators on windows. If it were as easy as allowing users to have control over installation in their own personal directories, it wouldn't be an issue, but forcing programmers to modify C:\Windows\ files and use the registry (which also takes admin access) for any installation or the usage of pre-installed programs, leaves the system open for damage from multiple users.
I wonder why he didn't bring up that Dad has pictures of Little Johnny on his first day of school Mom has all of her and dad's wedding photos. Litte Suzy has all of her papers for school on the hard drive. Little Johnny likes to look up pr0n.
Windows situation, While trying to download hotmidgetdonkeypornheaven.exe, Little Johnny accidently picks up uber.worm. Uber.worm deletes Johnny's files, suzie's files, mom's files, dad's files, system files, makes the system useless, and you go from a windows computer to a nice paperweight until you reformat. *nix situation, While trying to download hotmidgedonkeypornheaven.sh, Little Johnny accidentally picks up the uber.deletion.script. Uber-del deletes johnny's entire home directory!
Of course, Mom, Dad, and Suzie are entirely unaffected because Johnny doesn't have permission to overwrite those files.
Wonder why the asshat, er, I mean, article writer didn't bring up that snippet?
You lost me. You mean if you create something in order to keep people from being harrassed by other people, you're discriminating against the people who would be harrassing them by not allowing them in the guild?
I've heard of putting a spin on something, but that statement puts a tornado on it.
Okay, being besides the point that the meat of this article has nothing to do with gay marriage, MMORPG marriage, or anything else, however states a snippet about an unrelated incident having to do with gay marriage, we'll move on to the valid point of the article...
Now, someone may have to clarify this for me, but basically, due to their anti-harrassment policy, you're not allowed to be against GLBT (Gays, Lesbians, Bis and Trans?) however it is also against the harrassment policy to support GLBT?
Damned if you do, damned if you don't?
So if I have a document named OMG.doc, will it remain unscathed if I rename it OMG.wtf?
Amazing how this reply was made by an anonymous coward.
Anyway, back to the real world, I'm an administrator on a Wiki and a couple of forums and one of the most common problems we used to have was people registering with hotmail, aim, yahoo, etc accounts which offered free accounts to anyone, then causing problems with their free accounts. All we had to do was to block these registrations. Many people still use these free accounts if there is no other alternative, however it only takes a short email to any of the core administrators to create an account with that email address and send the information back to the user.
I also hate to burst your anonymous bubble, but unless you're stealing bandwidth from your neighbor, or you do all of your postings and emailing from web-based interfaces in your public library, you're not as anonymous as you think. Even then you're not truly anonymous, however it takes quite a bit more coding and bouncing to gain any real anonimity. Much more than some racially motivated substandard wanna-be kiddie h4XX0r would be willing to put forth in order to spew his hate garbage at the general public anyway.
*sits back and waits for another anonymous asswipe, er, I mean coward to respond*
I find it absolutely amazing that the people or person who writes these little racial snippets is so concerned about hiding behind an "Anonymous Coward" moniker. Reminds me of Klan members who want to hide under white sheets and hoods.
/. public to see, it's always posted as Anonymous Coward, much like the verbal sewage above.
I think the oddest part is that someone who so seems to want to jump onto the bandwagon and type in bold and caps to draw attention to their ideas is also ashamed to be associated with them. If you feel your message is important, or that you have something, or in this case anything, of importance to add to a discussion, you should be able to stand proudly behind your thoughts and ideas and identify yourself. Allowing unregistered users, or giving registered users the option to post anonymously has got to be one of the poorest ideas I've seen in quite some time. It seems that each time any verbal sewage is plopped forth in a putrid mass for the
I don't want to wish any ill will on anyone, but I hope their kindergarten teacher sees what they're writing during class time and takes their computer priveleges away until after their nap. That'd show 'em.
For example...
/home/user/programs/ directory with a link to my /home/user/bin/ directory. I have full control over this, can use my own version of thunderbird 1.5, and it has no effect over the entire system. This really isn't too much to ask since there are multiple files on the system which I can read, however have no reason to overwrite. In this same directory, I keep America's Army, Castle Wolfenstein Enemy Territory, Firefox, RealPlayer (helix), and Adobe Reader.
I don't like debian's 1.0.5 version of Thunderbird on my system, so I can download the binary, decompress it, and place it in my
With the exception of running "sudo wajig daily-upgrade" every once in a while, I rarely have to use any root commands. None of the software I have on windows, everything from games to RealPlayer, could be installed in my standard user account. Each time I want to install anything, I have to log in as administrator (which I don't like) so that the install can write god knows what in my C:\Windows\ folder and C:\Program Files\ folder. What would be so terrible about having a full installation in C:\Documents and Settings\user\Program Files\ folder, or at least something that didn't have to affect the entire system?
I still have full control over my entire system, I just don't have to be logged in as Administrator 24/7 to use the system. You can keep control of your computer without having to be lord and master of the entire OS on a constant basis.
I know viruses/adware/spyware will still be able to be installed, but why not make it just a little bit harder. Hell, if a burglar wants to get in my house, he can kick the door in... that doesn't stop me from locking and bolting the door every night just to make it a little more inconvenient for Johnny Break-in to steal my stuff.
HAHA, nice. Spit a bit of coffee on my keyboard when I read that one.
I'm sorry, but wasn't most of Mitnick's attacks performed with information obtained through hacking by use of social engineering? How does this make him an expert on code?
He found exploits in OpenVMS and tricked users into giving him information. How does this make him different from what we now call a phisher? I think a bit too much credence is being given to an outdated dinosaur who's gone from "effective con-man" to "not quite as effective con man". I can't say he's completely ineffective now... obviously his verbal flatulence is still being posted on news sites apparently. Sorry, but IMO, Mr. Mitnick's on his 16th minute, and the industry's growing tired.
So, according to this page, there's no actual listed plural for the word virus. Could it be a word similar to deer?
Look, there's a deer!
Look at that group of deer.
Both correct since deer is the plural of the (singular) word deer. Potentially, virus could be plural of the singular virus, therefore viri, virii, and viruses are all wrong. Wow, talk about pouring gas on the fire.
According to Wikipedia In the English language, the normal plural of virus is viruses. This form of the plural is correct, and used most frequently, both when referring to a biological virus and when referring to a computer virus. The forms viri and virii are also used as a plural, although less frequently. There is disagreement among users of the Internet over whether these forms should be considered correct. No reputable printed dictionary includes them as correct forms.
Of course, if we're not allowed to use latin in the english language, you should stop using things like et cetera, super, circus, recipe, agenda, ultimatum, versus, or circa.
I'd be a smartass and call you a genius, but since that's also a latin word, you'd probably refuse to accept it as english anyway.
What I'm saying is, apple contracts other companies to write programs for them, or they buy a company that already produces a product they want to include in their systems. The selection of programs that were developed by these companies after being purchased by Apple is very limited, so in effect, they have produced limited software written and developed while under the apple name, so that would in fact be apple software. However, much of the software is developed by companies not owned by apple, even if you can buy it off of apple's website. Apple is indeed a hardware company.
You are misinformed...
Believe what you will, but I'd suggest reading up on Apple's software. Just because they sell it, doesn't mean they wrote it. Heck, I bought Battlefield1942 a few years back from Circuit City. If Circuit City sells it, it must have been written by them, right? Oh wait, it says EA Games on the box, they must have written it. Surprisingly, it was written and developed by DICE, where it was then purchased by EA, then they marketed it to Circuit City, who purchased in bulk, and then sold me the individual game. Just because I bought it from there, doesn't mean they wrote, developed, marketed, then sold it.
This isn't your mom-n-pop corner store where Grandma knits scarves in the back room and sells them from behind the register. Welcome to economics.
I'm wondering why no one's made the connection that an mp3 player is hardware. Why would a software company, namely M$, put out a piece of hardware? Anything more complicated than a mouse or a keyboard isn't exactly M$'s market.
Apple, however, makes hardware. iMacs, iBooks, iPods, iCantremembertheotherstuff, however they don't even write their own software, they use Unix. I say we let the software company continue producing software, and the hardware company continue to produce hardware.
I tried Konq in a couple of hotels, and FF, neither of them worked. I'm not sure what the difference is.
I use IE in debian using crossover office from Codeweavers. I have to travel now and again for work and some hotels use the same setup where it requires that you use IE to make your connection (and yes, safari works too, but I don't have a mac)
All I have to do is make a connection to google with IE, then I use FF for everything else.
Pippy's sadly outdated, but I don't exactly need the 2.4.2 functionality in every little thing that I write. If it's something for personal use, it doesn't need to be all flashy with the latest-n-greatest bells and whistles but to perform a simple function (usually in CLI if it's for me)
Heck, I'm not writing a PostgreSQL tie-in function for the Apache webserver running on a Tungsten E here. It was just a short little script to back up data onto a memory card when her battery gets low. Strangely enough, it's basically the same app I used to back up commercial servers on a daily basis until a recent rewrite about 2 months ago.
Well, the programs itself don't need to be modified but sort of "tweaked" for usage on different systems. My latest little app written with tkinter doesn't actually need to have any changes to use the app itself, but saving files is different. Of course, with different file hierarchies, trying to save something to C:\Program Files\User\foobar.cfg isn't going to work in Linux, the same as saving to %HOME/.foobar.cfg isn't goint to work in Windows.
Setting these variables to query the OS and modify parts of the save file really isn't something that I'd consider a major modification. There is no real "platform independant" programming language simply because each platform has minor changes that must be compensated for when it comes to complex functions, however python allows this transition to occur much more easily than any other language I've used IMO.
To imply that Python is completely platform independant was a mistake on my part because there is no 100% independant language, however using the import function to import libraries to assist with many complex functions makes it easier to perform the task of making it operational on multiple platforms.
Python was the very first language I used to learn to program. I had multiple people telling me to start with python, so I perused over to their site, picked up a few online tutorials to go through, and started building a library of python books.
It helps because I can write one program for Linux, it works on my Windows PC with minor mods, and even works on my wife's Palm with similiar minor mods.
Python is a platform independant object-oriented programming language. It's great to learn, and it's great to start your learning with.
I hate to point this out... actually, I don't really mind pointing it out, but Myspace is nothing but a free "make your own crappy website where your friends make their crappy website" hosting places. All they do is make a haven for teenagers and child molesters to make as many "friends" as possible on their web pages for no charge. By providing an over-simplified interface to make as many nasty websites as possible so the friends of their users will look and generate more advertising money.
Out of the free use, I'd say these people can pretty much enforce whatever they want on their space. If they don't want any racist sites, they can filter out as many sites by Aryans and Black Panthers as they want to maintain this. Extend this as far as they can into things like revenue generators. They get a check from Coke, so the word Pepsi isn't allowed in virtual ads on the individual pages. They get paid by file sharing company A, they're not going to allow file sharing company B into their pages.
Nothing's free, these people offer a server and maintain complete control over content.
Now if only I could get my daughter off the damn thing, I'd be happy.
Perfect solution to this
right click -> remove buddy
If you're using leet speek,you're probably not on my buddy list to begin with.
I picked up something from Radio Shack about a year ago called iGo. little universal charging thing that you can just swap out tips for. Now instead of having 9 chargers, I have one charger and 9 tips that I can't remember what the hell they go to. Shame it doesn't work with my Dell laptop though.